“I humbly apologize and ask for your forgiveness,” she said in a press conference outside her Orange County home. “I’m an imperfect Christian gal who does her best to live a Godly life. I would never do anything to intentionally harm or berate others regardless of ethnicity.

“I will not repeat this error so I ask for your forgiveness for I am truly sorry.”

Davenport said she would not resign her political post in Fullerton, Calif., because she is “getting comments from my constituents asking me, `Please do not resign,’ and out of respect for (them) I will continue to remain in office.”

She claimed she thought the email was “political satire” but admitted that she did not send it to some people she thought “might be offended.”